In 15 Minutes! Paulie Abeles’ “Sins of Omission” on No Quarter Radio
By SusanUnPC on March 22, 2009 at 12:45 AM in Current Affairs
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IN 15 MINUTES, JOIN Paulie Abeles who, it happens, finds the best guests for her Monday night No Quarter Radio show. [FYI: The call-in number is (347) 677-0792, and there's truly fun "live chat," so sign in early, before 9 p.m. ET.]
By the way, you do know that, next Monday, she’s hosting the irrepressibly, irresistably cantankerous Bernard Goldberg whose book our readers are snapping up like hotcakes.
Paulie’s guest tonight on “Sins of Omission“ at 9:00 pm EST is Thomas P. M. Barnett, whose life reads like something from a Tom Clancy novel.
In the last week of September, 2001 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield made a call. The recipient was Retired Rear Admiral Arthur Cebrowski. Rumsfield asked Rear Admiral Cebrowski to return to service; his country needed him. His task? To transform the military from a force designed to combat a conventional Soviet-style foe — to one that could meet any foe, any where, at any time. Called the “Office of Force Transformation” — Cebrowski’s brief was nothing less than re-inventing the US military. To assist him, Cebrowski tapped a brilliant, but little known analyst who had taught at the Naval War College when Cebrowski served as its President.
His name was Thomas P. M. Barnett.
In some ways, Wisconsin-bred Dr. Barnett was an unconventional choice–having studied at Leningrad University and taught Marxism at Harvard–Barnett had cut his academic teeth on Cold War ‘realpolitick’. But Barnett had also directed the ‘New Rule Sets Project’ — a group designed to re-draw the maps of international security based on increasing globalization.
The result was a three-hour PowerPoint presentation that changed the world. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Senior military officials say [Barnett’s] decidedly controversial ideas are influencing the way the Pentagon views its enemies, vulnerabilities and future structure.”
In 2004, the presentation became the foundation of Barnett’s New York Times Bestseller “The Pentagon’s New Map” which the Chicago Sun Times called “…easily the most influential book of our time” and The Washington Post called the “…red-hot book among the nation’s admirals and generals.” Barnett followed with another bestseller, ”Blueprint for Action.” His latest book “Great Powers: America and the World After Bush” begins with the premise that, as Barnett says, “Lately we are being told that this is no longer our world. America is in decline, and the rest of the world has caught up to us. Wars may be won, but the peace belongs to others-we just have to get used to it. I won’t tell you that the critics are wrong — just that their vision is too limited. This is still America’s world, and if we have the will to step up to the plate, we can make things right — right now.”
Join Paulie Abeles on No Quarter Radio’s “Sins of Omission” on Monday night at 9 pm as we discuss geo-political strategy, war, peace, and the pivotal role of women with Thomas P.M. Barnett.
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